Brand New Life Online: Rise Of The Goddess Of Harvest

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Once we returned to the castle, we made our merry way inside the throne room. It seems the Queen had already told this to her husband, as Rose, or well, Camilla, was waiting for us with her husband in the throne room. I am still trying to understand how she ended getting romantically involved with a NPC, and a King no less.

I am not saying this as if it were a bad thing, but the constant need to log off as a Player would make it harder for the two, right? She also can't possibly just sleep with him in-game, it would be detrimental for her health, I think…

So how does she do it? I don't even remember her ever logging out. Is she really a Player or something else? Maybe, maybe I am overthinking it and I shouldn't meddle with other people's lives, I guess.

"Welcome back, everyone. My wife told me everything that happened, and about your secret mission," the King greeted us first, as I noticed my daughter, her friends, and Angelina's party right in front of us.

"Ah, yes, your majesty, we've come back with a large… amount of news, if I dare say myself," I sighed. "Like, too many things happened, but… yes, we got evidence, we saw everything. We even bought someone here that might be a living member of the cultists."

"What?! Really?!" the King wondered, his bright eyes shining even brightly.

"Is that true?" the Queen wondered. "It seems things went even better than I imagined! Please, show us the evidence! Also, feel free to send me the pictures and videos you got."

"Very well your majesty," I nodded, doing that while Rita expanded her shadows, Tomas suddenly appeared resting over the ground.

He was wearing some pants and a white shirt and nothing else, we had to dress him ourselves. Well, Mark did it, but yeah. Everyone could clearly see the red jewel in his chest, the characteristic of most cultist, a Demon Heart.

"This is Tomas, one of the magicians that helped us infiltrate, well, he mostly just did what he was told," I said. "You see, everything started with…"

We spent the following twenty minutes explaining to everyone present what just happened. From Tomas, the tests, the grimoires, the skill books, Ashhand, the interior of the tower, and then everything else we saw.

From the battles, to leaving no evidence, and from the voice of who we believe was Merlinus, his presence, and his powers in more detail. The King and the Queen were surprised, as they didn't know almost everything we told them.

The magicians kept the tower's secrets for themselves and didn't even allow people of the kingdom to enter, at least not those that had sworn their loyalty to the royal family.

Apparently, they abused their authority as a international organization that even transcends two continents, to make themselves feel so important not even the King of the country their tower is located can have a saying about them, or even try to investigate what's happening inside.

Now that I think about, it was obvious they would be the cultists, they are literally the perfect target for the Demon Kings to use, with enough power to protect their secrets and power-starving old men that would do anything to become stronger, jealous of the King for what his family had accomplished over many generations.

"I see… It must have been hard for you that everything happened so out of nowhere," sighed the King. "I have to apologize, my wife decided to do this all on her own. I can't possibly fathom what might have happened to you if that evil wizard would have ended parasitizing your souls… Camilla, perhaps we needed to prepare them a bit better beforehand."

"I… I suppose I owe an apology as well," nodded Camilla. "Although you handled things fine, there were many variables and things I never considered at all…"

"It is fine, your majesty, we handled things at the end and brought all the evidence we could find, burned all the evidence we could have left behind, and left," I sighed in relief. "Now that things are finally clear, what is your next plan? What should we do?"

"It is a complicated question," the King said. "However, I cannot let those monsters roam freely in my country. Although Tomas here is a victim forced to become a cultist, I could confidently say all wizards are cultists, right?"

"I don't know, but at least those within that big group are," I nodded. "We could wait for Tomas to wake up first, I believe we could ask him these questions and he could help us make things clearer."

"We must prepare first, amass as many troops as possible before things become worse," Camilla said. "Based in what you said, Merlinus is most likely their leader, and incredibly powerful Magician of Level 400 and higher, his Magic Circle Tier is rumored to be eight or even worse, nine. And he apparently has an incredible affinity and talent over space magic, something we had no idea about!

He's immensely dangerous, and we must tread carefully."

"I agree, first let's get as many troops as possible. A potential invasion to the tower can't be done immediately right now. Merlinus might or might have suspicions of his own, but it's better to remain neutral and act like fools until our troops, tools, and plans are finally completely made," the King nodded.

"Merlinus is not a fool though," I said. "You really have to hurry; I don't think you could keep this up for more than a couple of days… I'm sorry that things came to be this way, but if you want a chance to defeat him, we must hurry. And don't just rely on your troops, your majesty. Our entire group is willing to help as much as we can. We could also recruit even more Players for the cause.

Right, Queen Camilla? I am sure you could bring a lot of them."

She smiled, giggling.

"Yes, indeed."

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